{"id":118016,"date":"2019-03-06T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=118016"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:04:45","slug":"is-amazon-echo-a-cia-listening-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=118016","title":{"rendered":"Is Amazon Echo a CIA listening device?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CIA and Amazon: the Mega Anonymous Source Machine? You Decide.<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Gayla<br \/>\nnotb4coffee.com<\/p>\n<p>Connect the dots! Washington Post and their so-called anonymous sources. You do the math!<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO OWNS WASHINGTON POST<br \/>\n<\/strong>In 2013, the Washington Post was purchased by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon. That same year, Amazon also obtained a CIA contract worth $600 million. At the time, the Nation pointed out the conflict of interest that these dealings posed. That\u2019s at least twice what Bezos paid for the Post this year. Bezos disclosed that the company\u2019s Web-services business is building a \u2018private cloud\u2019 for the CIA to use for its data needs.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/amp\/article\/374632\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/amp\/article\/374632\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRUMP\/BEZOS FEUD<br \/>\n<\/strong>November 2016: The battle started last December with a series of seemingly unprompted tweets from Trump. \u201cThe Washington Post, which loses a fortune, is owned by Jeff Bezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no-profit company, Amazon,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cIf Amazon ever had to pay fair taxes, its stock would crash and it would crumble like a paper bag. The Washington Post scam is saving it!\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/nov\/18\/amazon-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-challenge\">https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/\u2026\/amazon-jeff-bezos-donald-trum\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BEZOS MOVES TO D.C.<\/strong><br \/>\nJanuary 15, 2017: Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon\u2019s founder and owner of The Washington Post, moves into the same D.C. neighborhood of Ivanka Trump and Barack Obama paying $23 million in cash for a 10-bedroom mansion on S Street NW.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/there-goes-the-neighborhood-obamas-ivanka-trump-jeff-bezos-moving-in\/2017\/01\/15\/93164426-d998-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.35a2d5a3318b\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\u2026\/93164426-d998-11e6-9a36-1d\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN PODESTA @ THE WASHINGTON POST<br \/>\n<\/strong>February 23, 2017: Roughly ONE month after President Trump took office, Washington Post announces John Podesta joins as a contributing columnist.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/amphtml\/pr\/wp\/2017\/02\/23\/john-podesta-joins-the-washington-post-as-a-contributing-columnist\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\u2026\/john-podesta-joins-the-wa\u2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should we be comfortable with a computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency and over the services (all 17 agencies) that make up the intelligence community?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/magazine\/features\/2014\/07\/daring-deal\/88207\/\">It IS the brainchild<\/a>\u00a0of James Clapper and IC Chief Information Officer Al Tarasiuk.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t the \u201cunmasking\u201d fall under the CIA and International Intelligence? The dots, the sources, the leaks and the collusion are right under our noses!<\/p>\n<p>The connection between Amazon and the CIA causes me further concern with regards to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2rN08F0\">Amazon Echo<\/a>. How convenient would it be to use Echo as a CIA listening device? Seems rather simple to me.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.notb4coffee.com\/cia-and-amazon-the-mega-anonymous-source-machine\/\">http:\/\/www.notb4coffee.com\/cia-and-amazon-the-mega-anonymous-source-machine\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIA and Amazon: the Mega Anonymous Source Machine? 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